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From across the Iron Curtain, the warning came: Hopalong Cassidy keep out. Soviet authorities in East Berlin last week laid down rules for the kind of fancy-dress costumes school kids may wear during Fasching, the month-long Teutonic version of Mardi Gras. There must be no Red Indian and Negro minstrel costumes: "These are suppressed peoples whose fight for freedom would not be supported by such masquerades." Also verboten: cowboy outfits, which represent "materialist and imperialist tendencies." Recommended substitutes: "costumes of freedom-loving and progressive peoples like the Chinese, Bulgarians and Hungarians...
...discovered art," he goes on, next to the picture of a public men's room wall covered with crude sketches of nude women. And, "Man worshipped many Gods," appears on a page where men and women are bowing before sex, money, alcohol, cigarettes, and Hopalong Cassidy...
...convey a message that subtly teaches patriotism, tolerance, fairness and respect for the rights of all men." On the air, the sponsored (by General Mills) Lone Ranger is so strait-laced that he "avoids commercialism during the entertainment feature." Off the air, like his great rival, Hopalong Cassidy, he relaxes to the extent of endorsing some 70 commercial products, from wallpaper and hats to schoolbags and harmonicas...
...thought you were Forsythe. Have you seen a little boy...?" Hear air raid siren at left elbow. Turns out it's not air raid siren at all but little boy. Forsythe. Pick self off floor and get caught up in herd of stampeding gamins. We sweep through the Hopalong Cassidy Corral, Scout Hut, and emerge in a layer of purgatory which Dante, lucky fellow, never visited. Gamins disperse into scouting parties and disappear...
...picture picks up most of its fun en route, in the desperate connivance and tart wisecracks of MacMurray and McGuire, the elaborate innocence of Callaway's double, the real Smoky's talent for caching liquor so cleverly that he stays bewilderingly plastered throughout his alcoholic cure. Hopalong, however, need not call the sheriff. Callaway bares its teeth only to grin, not to bite; and it provides parents with welcome comic relief from the hoofbeats that have invaded the U.S. home...